[Freeciv-Dev] Re: readline 4.2

[Thue <thue@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 10 April 2001 14:56, Thue wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 April 2001 14:49, Erik Sigra wrote:
> > tisdagen den 10 april 2001 13:56 skrev Thue:
> > > On Tuesday 10 April 2001 13:45, Thue wrote:
> > > > readline 4.2 was released recently, and it breaks freeciv readline
> > > > support horribly. Here is a kludge to fix it, see comments in patch.
> > > >
> > > > I didn't test it with 4.1 or earlier as it is a bit of a pain to
> > > > downgrade stuff like that. Could someone please try it?
> > > >
> > > > -Thue
> > >
> > > On second though this will only work with the version of readline with
> > > which it was compiled. Why do the readline folks feel they need to
> > > change their interfaces...
> >
> > Just let Freeciv depend on readline-4.2 or higher for readline
> > functionality. It is generally better style for a program to require
> > current libraries than legacy libraries.

On second thought, that would probably be best. Ok with everyone?
It could be done by checking for the rl_completion_matches() function.

-Thue